Comments on: More Referer Scripts

By: chris

chris — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

if you are looking for stats on who visits your sites…
awstats provides alot of information including browser, OS, robot hits… etc…

awstats.sourceforge.net

By: Stu

Stu — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Well 30 seconds of Goolging for HTTP_USER_AGENT safari

revealed

http://www.xiven.com/blog.php?start=34&count=1

Or if you want it immediately:

elseif(strstr($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],"Safari/")) {$useragent = 'Safari';

By: Stu

Stu — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Also your code for identifying Mac's might need a little work. Some agents refer to them as PowerPC, not PPC or Mac. Just an extra clause might get you more precise statistics.

By: Stu

Stu — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

This web page seems to have a good list of user agents:

http://www.hofflergroup.com/public/HitCount.xml?summaryField=user_agent

You can see what you are by doing a refresh, and seeing which count goes up. My Mac OS X with Safari seems to be:
mozilla/5.0 (macintosh; u; ppc mac os x; en-us) applewebkit/85 (khtml, like gecko) safari/85

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I've posted Day 3 of the Referer Scripts Tutorial.

By: zannie

zannie — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I'm not sure if i'm using the same script or not, however, I clicked on the referrer script link, the one by Dean Allen and installed that and it doesn't seem to jive with pMachine….. specifically the mailing lists portion. Wasn't sure if that was a known bug – or a bug at all – or something that *I* did wrong, but I just thought I'd report back.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Stu,

I'm not leaving Safari out on purpose. I don't have a Mac myself, so I can't test to see what the HTTP_USER_AGENT string looks like. If you can tell me that, I'll add a test for Safari to my script.

BTW, if anybody is following along, I'll post the script for displaying browser and os data late tonight or early tomorrow (EDT)

By: Stu

Stu — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Jennifer, Seeing as at least 10% of your visitors are Mac (and probably a lot more that are getting reported as other), I would think you would be interested in recording Safari as an agent. I would guess this would account for most of your other agent.

Just a thought…

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Jason is the author of that post and script… I'm just the messenger. But he is getting comments emailed to him…

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I've already seen some people coming from Scriptygoddess.com to my website since Jenn posted this article.